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Health Information Technology and Patient Outcomes : The Role of Organizational and Informational Complementarities
McCullough, Jeffrey - 2013
Health information technology (IT) adoption, it is argued, will dramatically improve patient care. We study the impact of hospital IT adoption on patient outcomes focusing on the roles of technological and organizational complements in affecting IT's value and explore underlying mechanisms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088406
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Long-Term Care, Wealth, and Health of the Disabled Elderly Living in the Community
Garber, Alan M. - 2009
characteristics. Tobit regressions are presented that relate utilization of hospital services, paid home-health care, and unreimbursed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012767111
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Aging and the Growth of Long-Term Care
Lakdawalla, Darius N.; Philipson, Tomas - 2021
This paper analyzes how markets for old-age care respond to the aging of populations. We consider how the biological forces, which govern the stocks of frail and healthy persons in a population, interact with economic forces, which govern the demand for and supply of care. We argue that aging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249687
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The Rise in Old Age Longevity and the Market for Long-Term Care
Lakdawalla, Darius N.; Philipson, Tomas - 2021
This paper analyzes how markets for old-age care respond to the aging of populations. We consider how the biological forces, which govern the stocks of frail and healthy persons in a population, interacct with economic forces, which govern the demand and suppoly for labor-intensive care. Many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313648
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Investment Subsidies and the Adoption of Electronic Medical Records in Hospitals
Dranove, David - 2014
In February 2009 the U.S. Congress unexpectedly passed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). HITECH provides up to $27 billion to promote adoption and appropriate use of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) by hospitals. We measure the extent to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046161
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Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services
Arzaghi, Mohammad - 2010
This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the unbundling of services that has occurred over more than two … decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: How can the shift from the bundling to the unbundling of services be … Salinger (2005, 2008), we develop a simple model of an advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758332
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The Impact of New Laboratory Procedures and Other Medical Innovations on the Health of Americans, 1990-2003 : Evidence from Longitudinal, Disease-Level Data
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2021
This study examines the effect of the introduction of new laboratory procedures and other medical goods and services on … the health of Americans during the period 1990-2003. We hypothesize that, the more medical innovation there is related to … hypothesis, we estimate models of health outcomes using longitudinal disease-level data. We measure innovation in five types of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247291
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Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care
Skinner, Jonathan S. - 2012
Inefficiency in the U.S. health care system has often been characterized as quot;flat of the curvequot; spending providing little or no incremental value. In this paper, we draw on macroeconomic models of diffusion and productivity to better explain the empirical patterns of outcome improvements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754821
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Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Health Care
Chandra, Amitabh - 2011
In the United States, health care technology has contributed to rising survival rates, yet health care spending relative to GDP has also grown more rapidly than in any other country. We develop a model of patient demand and supplier behavior to explain these parallel trends in technology growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127016
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Estimating the Impact of Medical Innovation : A Case Study of HIV Antiretroviral Treatments
Duggan, Mark; Evans, William N. - 2021
As health care consumes a growing share of national income in the U.S., the demand for better estimates regarding both the benefits and the costs of new health care treatments is likely to increase. Estimating these effects with observational data is difficult given the endogeneity of treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229012